The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

An official warrant of remission of penalty.

The state of being forgiven.

Release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.

To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; applied to the offender.

To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; applied to offenses.

To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

Remission of punishment or penalty without indicating exoneration from guilt.

To release from punishment; exempt from penalty.

Action by an official of an executive branch of government relieving a criminal from a conviction.

Form of clemency, granted by the executive branch.

Person may apply for a pardon from a summary offence conviction after three years while the waiting period to apply to apply for a pardon from an indictable offence is five years Applications are made to the National Parole Board.

An act of grace from governing power which mitigates punishment and restores rights and privileges forfeited on account of the offense.

Excuse me!, pardon: i beg your pardon!.

Pardon me.

Excuse me.

To give leave to.

Warrant granting release from punishment for an offense grant a pardon to; 'Ford pardoned Nixon'; 'The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President'.

This is a suffix attachted to the end of words to show assertion and stress For example, saying 'Hontou!' means 'Really!', but saying 'Hontou-yo!' means 'I'm telling you and it's TRUE!' Pronounced just as it's spelled.

Youthful offenders are inmates age 24 and younger that have been designated by the sentencing court or the Florida Department of Corrections Youthful offenders are housed in one of several designated institutions.

To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things.

To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson.

To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to.

To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles.